[gradsusr] Archived ncep gfs model rainfall data

Charles Langton Vanya dolesibeni at gmail.com
Thu Mar 28 03:53:19 EDT 2019


Stuart,
Thanks for the information
Regards
Charles


On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 09:39 CW Weather <weatherstu at chorleyweather.com>
wrote:

> To run the dods: https on OpenGrads you will need the new version
> (2.2.1.oga.1) which was released within the past 2 months or so.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stuart.
>
>
>
> On 27-03-2019 10:06, Charles Langton Vanya wrote:
>
> Andrew,
> Thank you for your response. I dont think this could be the problem
> because I tried to change the http: to https: but a still failing to
> get hold of the data.
> My thinking is that may be the whole site has change and I don't know to
> where?
>
> I have been told that I can access the data as grib2 but the problem
> is that I am having is that I am using windows and I am having
> problems installing wgrib on my computer.
>
> I really wanted to use dods which myself dont understand much about it.
> Hope someone will be in a position to assist me here.
>
> Looking forward to such assistance.
> Regards,
> Charles
>
> On 27/03/2019, Andrew Friedman <andfried at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Charles,
>
> Could this be related to the US government change from http to https?
> http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/2017-January/040605.html
> http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/2017-January/040558.html
>
> If so, you will have to use a newer version of GrADS and change your link
> to
> https.
>
> -Andrew
>
>
> On Mar 24, 2019, at 2:59 PM, Charles Langton Vanya <dolesibeni at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
> I am struggling to get archive model gfs or trmm rainfall data. I have
> been trying using different links but I am an able to locate where
> this data can be downloaded. The downloaded data can be an ascii(
> eg.gfs_3_20120516_1200_fff.ascii)  format which is compatible with my
> script.
> I would like to process this data so that in the end I can have a
> binary data for example Malawi_rainfall.bin
> I have been trying from this  link:
> http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/dods/NCEP_GFS/
> ",yearmon,"/",bdate,"/gfs_3_",bdate,"_0000_fff.ascii?
> But I am not able to get the data as it seems the link is deprecated.
> Does anyone know any link that can enable me access such kind of data.
>
> I would appreciate any kind of assistance.
> Best Regards,
> Charles Langton Vanya (Bsc, MSc.Agrometeorology)
> Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services
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